What exactly is Cancer?
In: Biology
Cancer is a name for a whole family of different things that can go wrong in your body, all related to one kind of cellular malfunction.
Normally the cells in your body are dividing apart to grow new cells at a certain rate, and do so in response to certain conditions, and this is part of what makes your body able to heal from injuries and damage. The genetic system which controls this division can sometimes go wrong, and this will cause cells to start dividing and growing out of control. Depending on what organ the cells are in, this can have a wide range of bad results.
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